» Friday, January 20, 2006
Reshuffle
Asked where the Prime Minister was planning to be tomorrow, and might he be working on a reshuffle, the PMOS said he thought the question was an innocent one to do with the Prime Minister's travel plans! With regards to the reshuffle, the Prime Minister would do it when he was ready to do the reshuffle.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
France’s Nuclear plan
Put that President Chirac had said earlier that he thought that France's nuclear deterrent was very helpful against terrorists, and did Britain have a similar position on that, the PMOS said it was an effective deterrent, full stop.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (7)
Sex Offenders
Asked if it was right that 150 of the 210 people who were given a partial ban on List 99 had a record of sex offences, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he did not recognise that figure. The important thing was that since 2000, the partial ban had gone as part of the tightening of the process that the Government had undertaken.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Education White Paper
Asked if it was a good idea for Ruth Kelly on the radio this morning to suggest that opponents of the Education White Paper, such as Lord Kinnock and Estelle Morris, simply "did not know what they were talking about", the PMOS replied that that was not what Ruth Kelly had said.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Al Jazeera
Put that the memo at the centre of the court case did not mention bombing Al Jazeera, but did it mention Al Jazeera in any sense, the PMOS said that as he had said at the time, he was not going to get involved in revealing private discussions between the Prime Minister and the President, anymore than he would discuss private conversations between the Prime Minister and any other world leader. There was, however a specific allegation repeatedly put, and that issue was what the PMOS had been trying to deal with.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
International Development Bill
Asked if the Prime Minister had anything to say about the International Development Bill that was going through the Commons, the PMOS replied that he was not aware of any comments the Prime Minister wished to make on it.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
National Lottery
Asked what the Prime Minister's response was to allegations that the National Lottery was being used as a "slush fund" to subsidise activities that should have been funded by the Government, the PMOS said that there was a debate in 1998 between those who said that the money should only be used for things such as sports, arts, heritage etc, versus those who believed that the money should be used for other areas such as education or environment, for example. If people looked at opinion polls in this area, what they showed was that the public believed that they were proper areas for lottery money to be used in. They were being used to good effect, so the Government would reject any suggestion that the money was being used in an inappropriate way; public opinion would seem to support that view.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
War Crimes
Asked if the Prime Minister had any response to the story today in The Daily Mail that had quoted "senior Whitehall sources" that he could be put on trial for war crimes, the PMOS said that he was not aware of any Whitehall sources who had that view, therefore he did not have a view either. As we had said consistently, the British Government abided by international law.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Iran
Asked if the Prime Minister had been made aware that Iran was repatriating its assets held abroad, including those of Britain, the PMOS replied that as he had said yesterday, he was not aware of anything to do with this story. What we would continue to do was to deal with the matter in hand in terms of Iran, and that was to get it to abide by international obligations.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Squirrels
Put that it was thought that the legislation on grey squirrels was happening on Sunday, but it now was on the Order Paper today for a Written Ministerial Statement, and what was going on, the PMOS said that the problem with squirrels was that they always popped up where people didn't want them to be! The PMOS said it was another case of squirrels getting out of hand.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
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